GNOME 2.18.0 RC1 (2.17.92) has been released. "This is the last unstable release before 2.18.0. We've all added cool features, important bug fixes, great translations, or shiny documentation during the past six months. And it'll be soon ready for public consumption. There's still one week before the hard code freeze, so it's not too late to fix this last bug you're ashamed of."
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Member since:2005-11-14
Not all of them.
Linus submitted about 7 patches, where 3 where code cleanups and the rest introduced a new feature. He submitted them after the feature freeze, so these didn't make it for 2.18. They will probably be in 2.20 (see the discussions).
You can follow them on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408898 (see the "depends on:" line).
Member since:2005-07-06
Just the patch that refactored some code in metacity, not the patches who actually add the requested function and the related GUI. Gnome is in features-, UI- and string-freeze now and only tested and absolutely necessary bugfixes can be committed.
The rest will have to wait for the release and then it could be committed in the stable branch for a 2.18.1 release or in the unstable branch for the 2.20 release.
PS. I'm not involved in Gnome, so I'm guessing what the developers could do, I'm not sure that they'll want to add the configurable mouse actions.
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2005-12-14
Remember Torvalds' sneering that his patches probably wouldnt go into mainline? Look what i found in metacity NEWS:
Thanks to Jaap A. Haitsma, Linus Torvalds and Kjartan Maraas
for improvements in this release.
PS: So yes, daven his patches are in.